Reconstruction

President Abraham Lincoln's assassination sets the stage for the Reconstruction Period

Photo of Lincoln's second inaugural address. John Wilkes Booth can be seen in the photo!



Click on the map below to go to a link with biographies on the Lincoln conspirators:



Boston Corbett, the Union cavalryman who shot John Wilkes Booth

Original photo of execution of Lincoln conspirators


Click here for the story on an attempt to steal Lincoln's body: